LOL wut? THe gk104 is there midrange card,the beast has not been released yet.There is no reason for it yet,if amd would have released a more powerful card initially we would have seen the GK110.
So thanks to AMD we are now paying high end price for a midrange card.
I know there be trolls that bash me for this but i have been right so far.... so bash away fanbois!! Still waiting for my + rep from a certain fanboi

No they're not. If they can rebound from the 2900 XT days, they will be fine, especially since the HD 7970 is still a very good card.
I don't get where people get these notions of AMD dying from a single card. This sort of mentality is extremely ignorant of how the market actually works.

Rep+ Very true, AMD most likely already has an answer for Kepler. Also, AMD being dead is a bad thing.

I agree with u AMD will not die from this,they might get hurt a little with bulldozer and now the 7970 but they will be fine

As long as they're competitive on price, I don't they're even going to get hurt. The HD 7970 was set at a price point that was higher than that of it's closest competition, the GTX 580. AMD did this intentionally as a premium for early purchases. Now that the GTX 680 is coming out, I guarantee that they will lower the price and people will continue to buy them. They definitely have some room to play around on price. It doesn't cost anywhere near $550 to manufacture each card.Edited by Mad Pistol - 3/21/12 at 1:11pm

Quick question for you Nvidia guys that have went with EVGA cards in the past. In order to take advantage of there step up program do you have to buy the video card from EVGA's online store or can you buy it from other outside vendors like NewEgg and Amazon?

When you register your card you can sign up for it, regardless of where you bought your new card.

Could my Theory be right?
This is just a GTX670 turned into GTX680?
For example if Fermi was not so power Hungry you could of had a GTX470 (608Mhz Stock) Come stock @ 775Mhz and Turbo 825Mhz. Thats surely as fast or faster then GTX480. This card Started @ 700Mhz and now its hitting 1100Mhz+. In a sense if this does not OC more then 1.2Ghz they are just selling OC performance. If this card came stock @ 700Mhz it would be slower then HD 7950 or as fast but the Overclocker would take it far more then that. I hope it overclocks or my theory could be right.

gtx670ti rumors said that and the gtx680 were identical for specs, with the only difference being clock speed. the chinese site said performance on gk104 ranged from on par with HD7870 to faster than HD7970. makes sense that at 700mhz it would be around the 7870 level. nvidia came out and said the name gtx670ti was just being thrown around internally and was never meant to be official. nvidia has a great chip in gk104 and they have positioned it well from what I'm seeing. maybe they clock the cards at the highest stable figure without increasing the voltage and let turbo take over from there as needed. the 7970 goes ~1125mhz-1145 on stock voltage. maybe this turbo to 1058 and 1150mhz (from 1006mhz) is the same type of stock voltage oc on kepler. I can't speak as to how far the card can be manually overclocked. that's a wait and see.